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12/01/2012

This Awesome TIE Fighter Cake was made by Cake Diane Custom Cake Studio. The TIE Fighter was made from Rice Krispes Treats and covered in fondant. The Wings were made using gumpaste. This Star Wars Cake was a Buttercream iced cake covered in fondant stars.

06/25/2010

We recently created a SpongeBob SquarePants cake with SpongeBob and Patrick sitting at a table in the Krusty Krab and sharing a Krabby Patty.

Here’s how we made SpongeBob with Rice Krispies Treats and fondant.

The first step was that we made paper dolls.

No, we really made paper dolls. We made simple paper models of SpongeBob, Patrick, the Krabby Patty and the Krusty Krab table to make sure they were all the same scale.

Here’s SpongeBob’s body made out of Rice Krispies Treats.

Once the Rice Krispies Treats had hardened, we used a paring knife to get rid of all of the rounded edges.

It’s SpongeBob in Carbonite!

SpongeBob’s face isn’t flat, so we used fondant to make the raised portions of his face. The only reason it’s green is that we had green fondant left over.

Little known trivia, SpongeBob screen tested for Disney’s Pinocchio.

SpongeBob’s nose is long enough that it wouldn’t stand on it own, so we used a wooden dowel to give it added support.

Here’s the nose covered with fondant.

No SpongeBob didn’t meet up with a low flying chicken; Those are two balls of white fondant.

We added just enough blue to make Sinatra jealous.

It’s amazing how much the pupils add to the face.

I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

We filled in SpongeBob’s mouth with red.

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth…

We gave SpongeBob’s pants.

SpongeBob looking snazzy with his shirt and tie.

Here’s the barrel SpongeBob’s will be sitting on in the Krusty Krab.

The question is, how do we get SpongeBob to stay in his seat?

The answer…

I think SpongeBob will get the point.

Can you say ouch?

Here’s SpongeBob seated.

Remember how we used wooden dowels to support SpongeBob’s nose? We did the same thing with his arms. We inserted two dowels and covered them with yellow fondant. If you look carefully, you might be able to see that SpongeBob also has legs now.

I got shoes, you got shoes…

SpongeBob’s shoes kept falling off, so we used toothpicks to hold them on.

06/04/2010

We’re working on a SpongeBob Cake with SpongeBob and Patrick sitting at a table in the Krusty Krab and sharing a Krabby Patty. Here’s how we made Patrick with Rice Krispies Treats and fondant.

We needed to make sure that SpongeBob, Patrick, the Krabby Patty and the Krusty Krab table were all the same scale, so we made paper models of each.

Since we’re making a 3-D Patrick, we searched the web for 3-D versions of Patrick and printed them for reference.

Here’s Patrick’s body made out of Rice Krispies Treats. I know it doesn't look anything like Patrick at this point, but it will.

Here’s Patrick with his arms added.

Patrick has a big belly, so we added more Rice Krispies Treats to his stomach.

You must work with Rice Krispies Treats while they’re hot, so all of this was done in about two minutes.

Once our Rice Krispies Treats Patrick had hardened a little, we leveled the bottom of Patrick.

We covered Patrick with pink and green fondant. I know this looks like the backside of Patrick, but this is actually his front.

We made a small curved indention for Patrick’s mouth and added eyes.

The whole time we were making Patrick, I kept feeling that he looked like someone else. When we got to this point, I realized that this version of Patrick looked like Oogie Boogie from A Nightmare Before Christmas.

We added pupils to Patrick’s eyes and a little red to the inside of his mouth. It is amazing how much just the pupils add to Patrick. We could stop here and we’d have a wonderful Patrick.

We added Patrick’s Tongue.

We added the blue pattern to Patrick’s shorts.

And here’s Patrick on the cake. We added fondant eyebrows and legs. Patrick is sitting on a barrel at the Krusty Krab. Patrick’s legs are attached to Patrick and to the barrel.

04/26/2010

This Millennium Falcon was sculpted from Rice Krispies Treats. I made this ship for my son's LEGO Star Wars Death Star Cake. My Millennium Falcon is based on LEGO's midi-scale Millennium Falcon .

I use the classic Rice Kripsies Treat recipe from the cereal box. If you don't have a copy, I've provided one here - Rice Krispies Treats Recipe. I make one minor change in the recipe, Kellogg's recipe calls for pouring the hot mixture into a pan. I pour them onto parchment paper and shape them. You must work with the Rice Krispies quickly while they are still warm. I try to keep the hot Rice Krispies Treats in a mound on the parchment paper to keep them warm longer.

Here are the steps that I went through to sculpt the ship.

Ingredients needed

Rice Krispies Treats Recipe

Rolled fondant recipe

Black powdered food color

Blue powdered food color

Red powdered food color

Mini-Vanilla wafer

We own the LEGO midi-scale Millennium Falcon, so I used it as a model and I used a picture from the LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary. I also checked out Star Wars books from the library and used them for reference photos as well.

I shaped the main body of the Millennium Falcon from Rice Krispies. I used a knife to finish off the shape of the front of the ship. Do not cut too hard and cut your counter. I made a small circle for the upper quad laser cannon mount and placed it on the top of the ship and pressed down to attach it to the ship's main body. I made the cockpit from another small piece of Rice Krispies. I pressed the cockpit onto the body of the ship. Try to press them together while everything is still warm so that the pieces will stick together. Here is a top view of the ship to show how everything fits together.

Once the structure of the ship was finished, I let it dry for a day. I used the following rolled fondant recipe to make fondant to cover the ship. I colored some of the fondant gray using using black powdered food coloring. Set the fondant on the table, break off a small chunk and kneed it in your hands until it is soft and pliable. Color the fondant gray by place a small amount of gray powered food coloring into the fondant. Kneed the fondant until it is the same color throughout. Add a small amount of color at a time and add more as needed to get the color gray that you want. Remember, you can always add coloring, but you cannot take away color.

Next, make a small amount of black fondant and a small amount of red fondant using the procedure above.

To make the main sensor dish, carve out the insides of a mini-vanilla wafer so that it is just a shell. Cover it in the gray color fondant.

Be sure to place a small mound in the middle out of black fondant. Roll out a small piece of the gray fondant on a piece of parchment paper or a fondant mat. I use Wilton's Roll & Cut Mat. Do not use a fondant imprint mat, because your fondant will have a pattern imprinted on it. Cut out gray and black circles for the docking rings/emergency escape hatches.

Use brown mini M&Ms maintenances hatches, and exhaust ports and escape hatches on top of ship. Place a small piece of dark gray fondant on top of M&M's for hatches and ports or alternately, first cover the M&M's in dark gray fondant, and then place them on the ship.

Roll out red fondant and use it to make the red designs on the ship.

Use a small piece of blue fondant to make the engine in the rear of the ship. I colored some of the fondant blue using using blue powdered food coloring. Next color some of the fondant black using black powdered food coloring. Set the fondant on the table, break off a small chunk and kneed it in your hands until it is soft and pliable. Color some of the fondant black by placing a small amount of gray powered food coloring into the fondant. Kneed the fondant until it is the same color throughout. Add a small amount of color at a time and add more as needed to get the color black that you want. It may be necessary to add a little bit of spray oil to the black fondant if it starts sticking to your hands too much.

Cut several small circles for the forward flood lights and small rectangles and an x shape for the cockpit view ports.